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What If the Yellowstone Supervolcano Erupts?
livescience.com ^ | June 02, 2012 11:42am ET | Natalie Wolchover |

Posted on 01/08/2016 1:49:27 PM PST by BenLurkin

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1 posted on 01/08/2016 1:49:27 PM PST by BenLurkin
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It will be used as a reason to ditch capitalism and the Constitution.


2 posted on 01/08/2016 1:51:23 PM PST by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: BenLurkin

What liberais left alive would blame it on climate change brought on by right-wing deniers.


3 posted on 01/08/2016 1:51:32 PM PST by Redleg Duke (The Federal Government is nothing but a welfare program with a dress code!)
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To: BenLurkin

A 2012 article?

I thought something was up with that.

4 years ago, maybe...


4 posted on 01/08/2016 1:51:59 PM PST by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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The USA would be destroyed.

The last light of civilization would be extinguished.


5 posted on 01/08/2016 1:55:21 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Just to be safe, I think we need relocate DC to yellowstone.


6 posted on 01/08/2016 1:56:05 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: BenLurkin

The Skiing at Grand Targhee, Jackson Hole and the Yellowstone Club will be poor for a couple of seasons.


7 posted on 01/08/2016 1:56:16 PM PST by Paladin2
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These things happen once every million or so years. Four years is nothing.


8 posted on 01/08/2016 1:56:22 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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It wont matter who wins Iowa


9 posted on 01/08/2016 1:57:43 PM PST by Wilderness Conservative
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Well it better not erupt before or during my job interview coming up.


10 posted on 01/08/2016 1:59:30 PM PST by Patriot Babe
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“A lot of people would perish . . ..”

Well, no kiddin’. I love insightful analysis. Does this guy get paid for doing this?

Oldplayer


11 posted on 01/08/2016 1:59:45 PM PST by oldplayer
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With enough warning, the states near Yellowstone could be evacuated...

And go where, exactly? As somebody who lives in the fallout zone, if that thing goes, I'm going to break out the good Scotch, put on a little REM, sit on the back deck, and have a toast to the end of it all.

12 posted on 01/08/2016 2:00:20 PM PST by Hoffer Rand (Bear His image. Bring His message. Be the Church.)
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This has happened many times in the past.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volcanic_winter


13 posted on 01/08/2016 2:00:40 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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It’ll happen exactly three minutes after I win the Powerball on Saturday.


14 posted on 01/08/2016 2:02:33 PM PST by RandallFlagg ("Political correctness is tyranny with manners." -Charlton Heston)
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My atoms will become part of Old Faithful.


15 posted on 01/08/2016 2:03:25 PM PST by alstewartfan (He was the sun Burning bright and brittle She was the moon Shining back his light a little. H Chapin)
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A live broadcast would be appreciated...

16 posted on 01/08/2016 2:04:18 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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Well, I’m a coupla hunnert miles upwind. I figure, 10 years of pork rinds in the basement and a beer well and I’m good to go. Oh, yeah, and a really long weenie-roasting fork.


17 posted on 01/08/2016 2:05:30 PM PST by Billthedrill
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It would solve the bear and pic-a-nic basket problems?


18 posted on 01/08/2016 2:05:36 PM PST by x
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Sadly, Seattle will still be there.


19 posted on 01/08/2016 2:06:09 PM PST by roamer_1 (Globalism is just Socialism in a business suit.)
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“Wherever I go I hope there’s Rum!”


20 posted on 01/08/2016 2:06:37 PM PST by dfwgator
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